What's
New with the Sumner County Historical and Genealogical Society?!

A
Lot - The ChisholmTrailHistory
& Family Center
is Now Open and Helping Researchers!

The
Chisholm Trail History and Family Center will be open to welcome and
serve researchers for the All-Class Reunion on May 25th, 2002, from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come and see your old classmates, and come by and say
Hi!

Sumner
County genealogists and historicans moved books from storage to
the new Chisholm Trail History and Family Center on March 10, 2001,
and researchers stop each week at the Sumner
County Historical and Genealogiical Center.
For more information on hours and contact info please check out the
Center's website.

Centrally located in Wellington at 208 N. Washington in the the North-east
corner of the Memorial Auditorium just two blocks from the Sumner County
Courthouse, right around the corner from the Wellington Public Library,
and down the street from the City of Wellington offices.

Centrally
located in the county as well, for an easy drive to cemeteries, towns,
or your family's farm or homestead. Since its opening in the spring
of 2001, the center has already almost outgrown it's current facilities
thanks to the hard work of the members, and generous donation of books
and materials.

Don't
know how to do genealogy?Volunteers are teaching classes, check at the Center
for beginning dates and times.

Want
to know who is buried where?Several volunteers have transcribed cemetery books that
are now for sale, and information is available
on the web.
The books are name indexed, and include maps to the gravesite.

Want
to use a microfilm reader to do newspaper research? The Center just purchased a good used one, and researchers
are welcome to bring in their own films, or use the ones available in
the library.

Did your ancestor homestead in Sumner County? Run in the Cherokee
Strip Race for land in 1893? Did they ride the rails to Kansas, or come
by horse or wagon? What was life like for your early Sumner County Pioneer?

If you have family stories or old letters about life in early day Sumner
County, we hope you'll share them with us, so we can share them with
others. Read some Pioneer
Stories here, and for some information about Sumner County's
rich history, click
here.

Why
Subscribe to Ancestry.com?

It's convenient,
reasonable, and you don't have to get dressed and drive to the library to check out the census records or databases. What's more, Ancestry is adding indexes
to their on-line census, and database records. And, when you subscribe through the SCHGS
website, a percentage of your subscription will help support the Society and allow them to continue making more records available to you!

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